John Joy

Read Rite Corp. is one of the three major independent suppliers of magnetic recording heads for the hard disk drive and tape drive markets. The Company designs, manufactures and markets magnetic recording heads as head gimbal assemblies and incorporate multiple head gimbal assemblies into head stack assemblies. The Company is a market leader in providing magnetoresistive and inductive tape heads to the entry level through mid-range tape drive markets. The Company operates in an industry with limited visibility. It is located in Fremont, CA.

Part of ASML Holding NV, Silicon Valley Group, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and services semiconductor processing equipment. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Ellen D. Levy. Silicon Valley Group was acquired by ASML Holding NV on May 22, 2001 for $1,199.10 million.

Solectron Corp. was a provider of electronics manufacturing and supply-chain management services. It offerings included new-product design and introduction services, materials management, high-tech product manufacturing, and product warranty and end-of-life support. The firm was acquired by Flextronics International Ltd. The company was founded in 1977 and was headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Heartport, Inc. develops systems and procedures for heart surgery. The company's technologies allow surgeons to perform a wide range of less invasive open-chest and minimally invasive heart operations, including stopped heart and beating heart procedures. Heartport was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Nexxt, Inc. operates an online career network to connect job seekers and employers through career channels. It offers candidate search, email marketing and human resources tools and services. The firm also provides international recruitment, agency solutions, strategic alliances, cooperates career site and applicant tracking systems solutions. The was founded by Richard P. Milgram on January 1, 1998 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

Nexsan Corp. develops disk-based storage systems designed for the long-term storage of digital information. It offers Unity that sets the standard for hyper-unified Storage. It enables consumers to mix-and-match high-performance flash with hard disks and to mix block storage for VMware, databases or exchange with file storage for home directories and sharing. The firm also provides back-up and recovery, digital video surveillance, and disaster recovery. The company was founded by Gary Watson and James Molenda in 1999 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Seagate Technology Plc engages in the development, production, and distribution of data storage products and electronic data storage solutions. Its products include hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives, solid state drives, peripheral component interconnect express cards, serial advanced technology attachment controllers, storage subsystems and computing solutions. The firm offers its products under the Backup Plus and Expansion product lines, and Maxtor and LaCie brands. The company was founded by Finis Conner, Syed Iftikar, Doug Mahon, David Thomas Mitchell, and Alan F. Shugart in 1978 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Century Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc. processes aluminum through rolling and cast plate. Its products include Standard ingots, T-Ingot, Extrusion Billet and Horizontal Direct Chill (HDC) Ingot. The firm serves aerospace, automotive, defense and energy industries. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Tessera Technologies, Inc. develops and licenses innovative semiconductor, interconnect and imaging technologies. The company offers mobile computing and communications, memory and data storage and 3-D Integrated Circuit technologies. Tessera Technologies was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Livescribe, Inc. develops paper based computing platform. It designs and manufactures smart pens, enabling customers to capture, search and share handwritten notes on the digital devices they use every day. The firm makes smartens on the market that synchronize handwritten notes with recorded audio and making the ubiquitous pen. The company was founded by L. James Marggraff and Byron Connell in January 2007 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Storage Genetics, Inc. provides computer storage devices for the mobile, consumer electronics and information technology industries. It offers flash memory devices to store data. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Longmont, CO.

Canaan Management, Inc. (Canaan Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Eric A. Young. The firm is headquartered in Westport, CT.

VantagePoint Management, Inc. (VantagePoint) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Alan Edward Salzman, James D. Marver. The firm is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with additional office in Beijing, China.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America offers school programs. The firm's programs include character and leadership, education and career, health & life skills, the arts, sports, fitness and recreation. Boys & Girls Clubs of America was founded in 1860 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

BrightSource Energy, Inc. designs, develops and deploys concentrating solar thermal technology to produce steam for electric power, petroleum and industrial-process markets worldwide. It combines breakthrough technology with solar power plant design capabilities to generate clean energy reliably and responsibly. The company was founded in 2006 by Arnold J. Goldman and Israel Kroizer and is headquartered in Jerusalem, IL.

OptiSolar, Inc. develops and manufactures photovoltaic solar panels based on the proprietary thin film amorphous silicon technology. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

Ouster Technologies, Inc. engages in the manufacture of semiconductors, optics, signal processing, and computer vision. It focuses on combining advanced technologies with practical and scalable engineering. The company was founded by Angus Pacala and Mark Frichtl in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.